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I'm giving Gazillion's latest Marvel Heroes trailer high marks.

Like all good video game trailers, it spends most of its time showing off what games are all about: gameplay.

Better still, it does a good job making the gameplay look fun.

Here's the trailer:

Now, I've laid out my problems with the free-to-play (F2P) model before, and while I find it comforting that this game will utilize a model similar to League of Legends rather than many other F2P games, I'm still withholding optimism. It's not that LoL does it badly - as far as F2P goes, it's one of the better games out there.

It's just my overall skepticism that keeps me...well, skeptical for lack of a better term.

Still, Marvel Heroes does look quite good.

It doesn't look at all like your average MMO, for one thing, so that's already a step in the right direction.

Rather, it takes the style and gameplay of games like Diablo and then tosses that into a massively multiplayer setting.

We'll see how that works, but I get the feeling it could be quite good, especially with a guy like David Brevik at the helm. Brevik's experience creating the first two Diablo games is certainly a plus.

Another MMO that takes a similar top-down style approach is Lineage Eternal. That game also looks like a refreshing shift away from the traditional MMO format.

Though whether it will have dinosaurs, as Marvel Heroes apparently does, remains to be seen.

Gazillion also announced new playable characters Jean Grey, Nova and Luke Cage at the New York Comic-Con today, pushing the total number of announced characters over 25.